The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
20.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
The little prince is a poetic tale that comes accompanied by illustrations made with watercolors by Saint-Exupéry himself. In it, a pilot is lost in the Sahara desert after his plane suffered a breakdown, but to his surprise, it is there that he meets a little prince from another planet. History has a p ...Show more
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (Flame Tree Collectable Classics) by Judith John (Contribution by); Washington Irving
20.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Flame Tree Collectable Classics Ser.
A stunning new edition of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and other stories including Rip Van Winkle, with deluxe cover treatments, ribbon markers, luxury endpapers and gilded edges. The unabridged text is accompanied by a Glossary of Victorian and Literary terms produced for the modern reader. First publi ...Show more
Frankenstein (Alma Classics) by Mary Shelley
17.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Evergreens Ser.
Since it was first published in 1818, Mary Shelley's seminal novel has generated countless print, stage and screen adaptations, but none has ever matched the power and philosophical resonance of the original. Composed as part of a challenge with Byron and Shelley to conjure up the most terrifying ghost ...Show more
Aesop's Fables by Aesop
23.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Signature Classics Ser.
The calamities that befall the hapless creatures of Aesop's Fables! The fox can't reach his grapes, then gets attacked by biting flies and loses his tail in a trap. And things don't go much better for the hare, who is chased relentlessly by a hound, barely escaping with his life-only to be beaten in a r ...Show more
The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts With Epilogue by Fyodor Dostoevsky
45.00 NZD
Category: Classics
This new, revised edition of the award-winning translation of Dostoevsky's classic novel celebrates the author's two hundredth birthday Winner of the Pen/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize <i>The Brothers Karamazov</i> is a murder mystery, a courtroom drama, and an exploration of eroti ...Show more
My Name is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok
29.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Asher Lev is a gifted loner, the artist who painted the sensational "Brooklyn Crucifixion". Into it he poured all the anguish and torment a Jew can feel when torn between the faith of his fathers and the calling of his art. Here Asher Lev plunges back into his childhood and recounts the story of love an ...Show more
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
21.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Mark Twain's witty, satirical tale of childhood rebellion against hypocritical adult authority, the "Penguin Classics" edition of "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" is edited with a critical introduction by Peter Coveney. Mark Twain's story of a boy's journey down the Mississippi on a raft conveyed th ...Show more
Cannery Row Popular Penguins by John Steinbeck
16.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: very good
It all begins with a letter. Fall in love with Penguin Drop Caps, a new series of twenty-six collectible and hardcover editions, each with a type cover showcasing a gorgeously illustrated letter of the alphabet. In a design collaboration between Jessica Hische and Penguin Art Director Paul Buckley, the ...Show more
A Room of One's Own (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Virginia Woolf
20.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Based on two lectures given at Cambridge colleges and first published by the Hogarth Press in 1929, A Room of One's Own is an extended essay about the predicament of female writers and a stirring call for autonomy and recognition. As well as settling scores with reactionary critics and laying the founda ...Show more
Moby Dick: Annotated Edition (Alma Classics Evergreens) by Herman Melville
17.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Evergreens Ser.
When the young Ishmael gets on board Captain Ahab's whaling ship, little does he suspect that the mission on which he is about to embark is the fulfilment of his master's obsessive desire for revenge on Moby Dick, a white whale who has already claimed countless human victims and destroyed many fleets. W ...Show more
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (Chartwell Classics HB) by Jules Verne
23.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Chartwell Classics Ser.
First serialized in a French magazine from 1869 to 1870, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea is an incredible adventure story that popularized science fiction throughout the world.Professor Aronnax, a marine biologist, joins harpoonist Ned Land in search of a mysterious sea creature in the open ocean, ...Show more
The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey
20.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
What does a great detective do when he's stuck in bed? Inspector Grant is used to prowling the streets, solving crimes and unraveling mysteries, so when he finds himself bedridden in the hospital, he needs something to occupy his mind.He turns his attention to the figure of Richard III--generally consid ...Show more